TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
Thunder. July 12, 1943
.WATER PROGRAM
IS
TO
Pnrtlnnrt Ore.. Jul' 12 U.R)
irnniitF nt the water conserva
tion and utilization program
from Farm Security administra
tion to Soil Conservation Service
became effective on July 1, J.
M rhrlct Pncifln enast regional
conservator, Soil Conservation
Service, announced today.
The transfer was authorized
Mnrrh 30 hv the War Food ad
ministrator. As of July 1, all
functions, personnel and prop
erty involved in the operation of
the program were iransierreu iu
the Soil Conservation Service.
Known as the Wheeler-Case
program, It handles development
nt irrlffntlnn nrotects in the
western states through Joint
operation of the uepartmeni oi
Agriculture and the Interior,
in., ant nt 1Q3Q Authorizes the
Department of Agriculture to
develop lands tor proaucuon
under Irrigation, acquire and
divide lands into farms of suit
able size, select families for oc
cupancy, and sell developed
farms to qualified operators
Kui.li rievelnnment follows con
struction of large dams and
other facilities by tne uepari
mnnr nf Interior which make
possible the utilization of water
on land by farm lamuios.
Carroll H. Dwyer, regional
supervisor explained there are
12 projects under actual develop
ment in ine II western jum-a.
Local Contractors
To Get Knowledge
Of War Contracts
A war contract termination
conference will be held at the
Jackson county Chamber of
Commerce building, beginning
at 12:45 p. m. Friday.
Army and navy contract ter
mination experts will conduct
the training session to provide
contractors of Medford with
knowledge for settlement of ter
minated war contracts and. for
filling out settlement forms.
Heading the group will be Lt.
Elton B. Jones, Thirteenth Naval
district labor relations officer.
Other members of the contract
termination team are C. E. Mus
scr, industrial specialist with the
V. S. army ordnance department.
Portland; Andrew J. Brugger of
the contract termination branch
of the U. S. army engineers,
Portland district, and Percy
Black, Smaller War Plants cor
poration, Portland,
The scheduled four-hour train
ing is offered without cost to con
tractors and their representa
tives. Participants will be given
practice in filling out settlement
forms and will be given other
detailed information on typical
contract termination cases.
American Legion at the regular
meeting Monday. Other officers
elected were Robert Bryant,
vice commander: Guy Wilcox,
second vice commander; Bernard
O. McBride, adjutant; Hugh
Gould, service officer; Rev.
Francis H. Ball, chaplain; Ben
W. Coutant, historical commit
tee; Carl Walker, sergoant-at-
arms. and Louis Rlnguette, fin
ance officer.
Named to the executive com
mittee were J. Z. Thompson,
Ben W. Coutant, Noble D. Stan
ton and Jay Hoffman. Delegates
to the state convention will be
Noble D. Stanton and W. C.
Allen.
Of the newly elected officers,
Robert Bryant, Bernard O. Mc
Bride and Louis Ringuette are
veterans of World War II.
FAST FREIGHT CO.
A caption appearing In the
May 23 issue of the Mail Tri
bune reading, ' Pierce Auto Is
Upheld by Court," was not in
full accordance with the facts,
due to inadvertence, and correc
tion is herewith made.
The Pierce Auto company and
four other truck lines, in a suit
against the Public Utilities com
mission and the Orcgon-Nevada-California
Fast Freight, sought
to vacate an order of the PUC
permitting the Oregon-Nevada-California
Fast Freight to oper
ate between Portland and
southern Oregon. The vacation
plea was denied in the Marion
county circuit court, and in an
appeal to the statu supreme
court the lower court was up
held.
The Pierce Auto and other
truck lines were not upheld as
the headline indicated.
TRAITOR DOOMED
Paris, July 12 (U.R) The
French high court of justice to
day sentenced to death the
"Traitor of Stuttgart," Paul Fcr
donnet, who broadcast nazi pro
paganda in the early part of the
war. Fcrdonnct was arrested re
cently at Tuttlingen by French
troops. He had been condemned
in Absentia by a Paris military
tribunal in 1940.
There are 27 Indian reserva
tions in California with a total
of 899 square miles.
"American Girls
Marry Italians
From POW Camp
San Francisco, July 12 (U.R)
Three girl cousins today pro
tested an army ruling ordering
their Italian soldier husbands
sent to an Arizona prison camp
because of regulations prohibit
ing marriage between prisoners
of war and American citizens.
; The girls are Italian-Americans.
.They are Norma Romeo
Scorza, 23, Virginia Panfili Maz
zoncino, 21, and Mildred Circo
Bertolotti. Mrs. Scorza and Mrs.
Mazzoncino were married at
Antioch, Calif., in a double cere
mony June 17 hnd Mrs. Bertolot
ti was married June 3 at Mar
tinez, Calif. When the marriages
were discovered, the Army re
turned their husbands to prison
er-of-war status and sent them
to Arizona.
The girls called for an Inves
tigation of "many more secret
marriages between American
girls and former Italian prison
ers of war."
FORCED "TIE-IN" SALE
ILLEGAL SAYS OPA HEAD
Portland, July 12 Requiring
a customer to buy a couple of
pairs of "foot protectors" before
she can purchase a pair of hose
is another type of "tie-in" sale
reported to the district OPA
price division which Is definite
ly Illegal, Hosea K. Evans, price
executive, announced today.
Evans said that this type of
transaction has been reportedly
occuring in several Oregon
towns in the wake of acute short
age of hosiery. Customers should
report this type of sale to the
price panels of their local boards,
he said.
Fnrest flren are a trinle threat:
They destroy valuable war re
sources, they divert necessary la-
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and REFRIGtKATOKS
YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE
SERVICE CO.
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Sea
HUNT'S SIGN SHOP
TRUCKS
BULLETINS
WINDOW
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bor from war Industry and agrl.
culture, they give aid and com
fort to the enemy. Keep Oregon
Green.
S-T.R-E-
S-T-B-E-T-C-H
your supply of
this home-grown
sugar as far as
possible. It's a
materiel of war.
Don't waste it.
Opening of the road to Dia
mond Lake by way of Crater
Lake National park has been de
layed Indefinitely because of
breakdown of snow plow equip-
ment, E, P. Leavitt, park super
intendent, said today. Leavitt
said the road would not be open
before end of the week and pos
sibly not by then.
The delay will also affect the
rim road, previously expected to
be open In about a week, Leavitt
said. No definite dale can now
be given as to when the rim road
can be opened, Leavitt reported.
11 CAPll
Floyd Smith Heads
r Grants Pass Post
p 'American Legion
Grants Pass, July 12 Floyd
Smith was elected commander
of Grants Pass post No. 28 of the
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